{"id":262882,"date":"2025-10-31T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262882\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:03:08","slug":"youtube-tv-loses-espn-abc-and-other-disney-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262882\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube TV loses ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Disney&#8217;s channels have gone dark on YouTube TV after the companies failed to <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entertainment\/streaming\/disney-warns-that-youtube-tv-could-lose-its-channels-amid-fee-negotations-155347776.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:reach an agreement;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reach an agreement<\/a> by their October 30 deadline. The affected channels include ESPN, local ABC stations, ABC News, FX, NatGeo, Disney Channel and Freeform. &#8220;Last week Disney used the threat of a blackout on YouTube TV as a negotiating tactic to force deal terms that would raise prices on our customers,&#8221; <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/inside-youtube\/disney-youtube-tv\/?sjid=11269581620476450138-NA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a> said in an <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/inside-youtube\/disney-youtube-tv\/?sjid=11269581620476450138-NA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announcement on its blog;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">announcement on its blog<\/a>. &#8220;They\u2019re now following through on that threat, suspending their content on YouTube TV.&#8221; YouTube added that Disney&#8217;s decision harms its subscribers while benefiting its own live TV products, such as Hulu+Live TV and Fubo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">In a statement sent to the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2025-10-30\/espn-abc-disney-blackout-youtube-tv-contract-dispute\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Times;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Times<\/a>, however, Disney accused Google&#8217;s YouTube TV of choosing to deny &#8220;subscribers the content they value most by refusing to pay fair rates for [its] channels, including ESPN and ABC.&#8221; Disney also accused Google of using its market dominance to &#8220;eliminate competition and undercut the industry-standard terms&#8221; that other pay-TV distributors have agreed to pay for its content. YouTube TV lost access to Disney channels back in 2021, but they were immediately able to strike a deal that <a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/youtube-tv-disney-channels-back-espn-abc-213518747.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:restored the channels;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">restored the channels<\/a> the very next day. The companies are most likely still trying to negotiate at the moment, but Google says it will offer subscribers a $20 credit if Disney channels remain offline for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Google has had to make several similar announcements over the past year. In February, YouTube TV <a data-i13n=\"cpos:6;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entertainment\/streaming\/youtube-tv-has-reached-a-deal-with-paramount-to-keep-carrying-cbs-cbs-sports-and-other-channels-154245757.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:almost lost Paramount content;cpos:6;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">almost lost Paramount content<\/a>, including CBS, CBS Sports and Nickelodeon, before reaching a last-minute deal. The same thing happened in August <a data-i13n=\"cpos:7;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entertainment\/streaming\/youtube-tv-subscribers-wont-lose-access-to-fox-content-after-all-130054330.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:with Fox;cpos:7;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with Fox<\/a>. More recently, Google and NBCUniversal also <a data-i13n=\"cpos:8;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entertainment\/youtube\/google-and-nbcuniversal-reach-multi-year-agreement-for-youtube-tv-120051505.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:came to an agreement;cpos:8;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">came to an agreement<\/a> at the eleventh hour, though YouTube TV <a data-i13n=\"cpos:9;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entertainment\/youtube\/youtube-tv-keeps-nbc-with-a-last-minute-extension-but-loses-univision-121508916.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:lost access to Univision;cpos:9;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost access to Univision<\/a>, the largest Spanish-language broadcaster in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney&#8217;s channels have gone dark on YouTube TV after the companies failed to reach an agreement by their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[141616,36573,3716,88,352,141617,92,72175],"class_list":{"0":"post-262882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-channels","9":"tag-disney-channel","10":"tag-disney","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-espn","13":"tag-local-abc-stations","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-youtube-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}